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arstechnica-com-6652		DDoSers are abusing Microsoft RDP to make attacks more powerful | Ars Technica			.html	text/html	963	81	62	DDoSers are abusing Microsoft RDP to make attacks more powerful | Ars Technica DDoSers are abusing Microsoft RDP to make attacks more powerful DDoS-for-hire services are abusing the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol to increase the firepower of distributed denial-of-service attacks that paralyze websites and other online services, a security firm said this week. Typically abbreviated as RDP, Remote Desktop Protocol is the underpinning for a Microsoft Windows feature that allows one device to log into another device over the Internet. So-called booter/stresser services, which for a fee will bombard Internet addresses with enough data to take them offline, have recently embraced RDP as a means to amplify their attacks, security firm Netscout said. There are about 33,000 RDP servers on the Internet that can be abused in amplification attacks, Netscout said. Dan is the Security Editor at Ars Technica, which he joined in 2012 after working for The Register, the Associated Press, Bloomberg News, and other publications.	./cache/arstechnica-com-6652.html	./txt/arstechnica-com-6652.txt